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KABUL (PAJHWOK): The Ministry of Defense (MoD) dispatched a team to central Panjsher province, which helped rescue a number of families trapped by avalanches. Over 260 people were killed and 100 others wounded in the latest wave of blizzards and...

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Taliban have set a mosque on fire which left copy of a holy Quran burned down completely in Andar district of southern Ghazni province, the district police chief said. Eng. Maj. Lutfullah Kamran claimed militants torched the...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Thousands of cricket fans on Thursday thronged streets in various parts of the country to celebrate Afghanistan’s first victory in the World Cup in New Zealand against Scotland after a nail-biting finish. Samiullah Shenwari batted...

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Tribal elders and farmers on Thursday claimed projects implemented by the Ministry of Counternarcotics to discourage poppy cultivation in southern Helmand province were not fundamental and had no impact.

KABUL (Pajhwok): A Turkish soldier and an Afghan civilian were killed and a second Afghan civilian was wounded when a suicide bomber in a car targeted a Turkish forces convoy in the heavily-fortified capital Kabul on Thursday, security officials...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Prominent Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP) leader Haji Ghulam Bilour says he is optimistic about Afghanistan’s reconciliation process and that Islamabad has been left with no option but to cooperate with Kabul. Bilour, a former...

JALALABAD CITY (Pajhwok): Officials on Thursday recorded dramatic increase in repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan’s Peshawar city and asked the central government should provide the families with needed facilities. Haji Ghulam Haidar...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Three children were killed by unidentified armed men in western Herat and northern Baghlan provinces, officials said Thursday. Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, spokesman for Herat Civil Hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News dead body of a kid...

KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Construction work on two small irrigation dams was launched on Wednesday in southeastern Khost province. The World Bank-funded dams are being constructed east of Khost City on a natural steam crossing through the Farm Bagh area...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Tuesday asked Iranian businessmen to invest in the rich mining and agriculture sectors of Afghanistan. He said this during inauguration ceremony of second Afghan-Iran expo in Kabul,...

QALAT (Pajhwok): Police in southern Zabul province claimed recovering huge quantity of weapons and bullets from a truck during a search, an official said on Wednesday. Col. Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy police chief, said his force recovered arms and...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Five people were wounded in a bomb blast in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday, an official said. The incident took place when a bomb targeted a police ranger close to the custom department around...

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Interior Minister Noor-ul-Haq Ulumi said on Friday that arms would be used against enemy but stressed close coordination with masses to ensure greater peace and stability in the country. Ulumi held detailed deliberations...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The Information and Culture Director for northern Sari-i-Pul province on Wednesday alleged gunmen loyal to the deputy provincial council head tried to kidnap him. Addressing a press conference at his residence in Mazar-i-...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Hundreds of Kabul residents on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration, seeking an oversight role for provincial councils. On Wednesday, the lower house rejected a clause of the law on provincial councils, barring the elected bodies...